Awais Aftab, MD, is clinical associate professor of psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University and a psychiatrist in Cleveland, Ohio. His academic, educational, and public-facing work focuses on conceptual and critical issues in psychiatry. His first book, “Conversations in Critical Psychiatry,” is an edited volume of interviews published in 2024 by Oxford University Press. He is a senior editor for the journal “Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology.” He writes online on his Substack newsletter, Psychiatry at the Margins.